@HDE226868 yeah, this is hard to work out and I don't claim to have answers either, which is why I brought it up. @bilbo_pingouin thanks for putting together the meta question.
I am not distressed by this. This sort of thing happens in beta; you sometimes have to try something for a while and then refine it. We might need to refine our scope, or maybe just the way we explain our scope. It's good that this question is being discussed.
The thing is, defining any closing criteria are always kind of subjective, because we don't leave in a binary world... There's always a white area, a black area and a grey one. And within that one, one can play around for quite a while.
So the SE concept is that by having more people voting, it becomes more "objective"
the flaw is that people tend to follow what the others do
which brings up the bias the of first close voter
that goes for too broad
for opinion-based
for single character, etc.
and the problem isn't only for us, I have seen similar issues on other sites
@bilbo_pingouin I really find serial voting to be a problem here. I have asked questions, specifically stated in a comment on an answer that it does not meet the question criteria and it just continues to rake in up votes.
So, @SerbanTanasa, you're #3 in number of asked questions and "not so high" in average vote per question, but you're #1 in total number of votes on question.
One issue I've seen come up a few times deals with a sense of scale in space. People's instincts on what can and cannot be done are often off by not just an order of magnitude, but an order of magnitude number of orders of magnitude! The same set of numbers tend to come up for describing just h...
Voting and Moderation
Upvotes Over Time - shows how many votes each post received on average over time.
Percentage of questions closed - shows a simple rundown of total questions, closed questions, and the percentage of questions closed.
Post Statistics
Distribution of Votes on Answers - sh...
@bilbo_pingouin @James ah, the stackexchange data dump is updated intermittently, might be behind a few days.
Oh, wait, it goes the other way around? Perhaps deleted questions? Dunno
I'd have to nose around in the tables, figure out the names, etc.
@SerbanTanasa blink... what? I'm surprised by that. I guess that's the power of a few high-scoring questions; my last couple have not fared well and I've actually been feeling a tad discouraged by that. So hey, this is nice to see. :-)
@Green aw, thanks! This community is full of awesome people!
@SerbanTanasa while surprised, I'm also happy to hear that. From the beginning I've thought that one of my key strengths here would be in asking decent questions (and, I hope, providing good examples). That plus general SE-clue stuff. I'm not nearly the expert that some of y'all are, but I'm ok with that.
One issue I've seen come up a few times deals with a sense of scale in space. People's instincts on what can and cannot be done are often off by not just an order of magnitude, but an order of magnitude number of orders of magnitude! The same set of numbers tend to come up for describing just h...
Voting and Moderation
Upvotes Over Time - shows how many votes each post received on average over time.
Percentage of questions closed - shows a simple rundown of total questions, closed questions, and the percentage of questions closed.
Post Statistics
Distribution of Votes on Answers - sh...
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